Farrow’s report details the accounts of six women who experienced various forms of sexual harassment from Moonves at CBS over a span of decades. Four described “forcible touching or kissing during business meetings” that was characterized as “routine” at the network. And two alleged that Moonves physically intimidated or threatened to derail their careers if they were to disclose the transgressions with anyone else:

“What happened to me was a sexual assault, and then I was fired for not participating,” the actress and writer Illeana Douglas told me. All the women said they still feared that speaking out would lead to retaliation from Moonves, who is known in the industry for his ability to make or break careers. “He has gotten away with it for decades,” the writer Janet Jones, who alleges that she had to shove Moonves off her after he forcibly kissed her at a work meeting, told me. “And it’s just not O.K.”

Douglas, of Six Feet Under fame, detailed to Farrow an encounter with Moonves where he reportedly began kissing her and forced himself upon her. She tried to joke her way out of the situation, describing him as a “good kisser” for the head of a network, as a way of reminding Moonves that he was her boss. That tactic worked for Douglas and he stopped, but she threatened by the executive before she tried to leave:

Moonves, she said, followed her to the door and blocked her path. He backed her up to the wall, pressing against her, with his face close to hers. “It was physically scary,” Douglas told me. “He says, ‘We’re going to keep this between you and me, right?’ ” Attempting to put him off with a joke, she replied, “No, sir, we won’t tell anyone that you’re a good kisser.” Moonves released her and, without looking at her, walked away. “It was so invasive,” she said of the threatening encounter. “It has stayed with me the rest of my life, that terror.”

Douglas described Moonves intimidating her on the set of her CBS show in the following weeks, including calls to her home where the executive allegedly berated her and said she would not be paid for her work. Other stories followed a similar path: a business meeting that Moonves leveraged into a potential sexual encounter, with abuse and intimidation following afterward.